Distributed Processing in Cadence's Affirma

[zeol]

cadence distributed processing

Hi all,
I hope that someone can help to solve the problems I encountered while setting up cadence's affirma for distributed processing for cadence's Affirma.

For the distributed processing, I intend to run the master queue manager on the machine call eskimo and submit a distributed job to the same machine (quad-processors). Eskimo is a Sun-Blade-1000 running solaris 5.8. To accomplish that, I did the following steps.

1. setenv LBS_CLUSTER_MASTER eskimo
2. created a queue_config_file containing the following
>> Fast 1
>> eskimo 2
3. excuted cdsqmgr by entering
cdsqmgr /users/joe/fab1/queue_config_file
4. execute cadence in the machine call eskimo via icfb, open up Cadence Analog Design Enviroment
5. Problems started when i tried to check the setup for distributed processing via Setup -> Simulator/Directory/Host -> distributed -> Check setup. The check stopped after encountering Error (219). The log from the check is included below
>> ###############################################################
>> Checking Distributed Processing (DP) setup..........
>> ###############################################################
>> Current User is: joe
>> Submission host name is: eskimo

>> Checking for DP environment variables.....
>> ###############################################################

>> Environment variable LBS_CLUSTER_MASTER is set to eskimo
>> Checking for LBS mode setup
>> Checking if cdsqmgr is running properly on "eskimo" .........
>> ERROR (219): The script failed to detect the OS type of eskimo
>> ###############################################################
>> Setup check terminates with 1 errors and 0 warnings.

6. check in the unix prompt with adptest also yielded unsatisfactory results, the log for it is included below as well.
>> eskimo:/users/joe/fab1> adptest

>> BEGIN Artist Distributed Processing Setup Test

>> Testing for existence of LBS_CLUSTER_MASTER variable...
>> PASSED.

>> Testing opening of Artist Job Server...
>> Launching Artist job server...
>> Artist job server has initialized!
>> PASSED.

>> Please be patient - the remaining portion of the test takes some time.

>> Testing job submission to host `eskimo' on queue `Fast'...
>> Waiting for ipc:-1 to terminate

Has anyone ever encountered similar problems before or know how to solve the problem?

Thank you!

Regards,
STL